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To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

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Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.
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I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.
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Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
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Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.
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Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.
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The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
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To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
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When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
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What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
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Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever
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The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.
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In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth.
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All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
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I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.
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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
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I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.
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When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.
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